TDS Rates • For payment to residents and domestic companies, there will be no surcharge and cess on the basic rate of TDS. This simplifies TDS rates to a great extent. • There are changes in TDS rates for payments to contractors and payment of rent. Those are explained below. TDS on payment to contractors: Section 194C
Acceding to insurers’ request, sectoral regulator IRDA on Tuesday extended the deadline for collection of PAN of every customer paying an annual premium of over Rs 1 lakh by one month to September 1, 2009.”Many insurers have expressed difficulty in meeting with the deadline of 1st August, 2009… and requested for an extension. Taking the representation […]
Accounting regulator in India have not yet clarified on whether Indian companies, when they shift to IFRS on April 1, 2011, should recast revenues and expenses of the previous years, in line with the IFRS practices followed elsewhere, or would the domestic accounting regulator excuse local entities from this restatement.
In India, the law is settled that tax avoidance is legal and evasion is not. A taxpayer may create a device to arrange his commercial affairs to minimise his tax liability and its acceptance is based on operation of law. While revenue authorities are entitled to decipher the true meaning of a transaction, they cannot […]
Self reporting of Tax Bases & Acknowledgment [Section 148 & 154] 1. Similar to the concept of filing return of income, taxpayers have been required to file ‘Return of Tax Bases’ (‘RTB’) 2. The RTBs have to be filed on or before: • 30th June – If the person is not a company and does […]
In exercise of powers conferred by Section 5 read with Section 3(2) of the Foreign Trade (Development & Regulation) Act, 1992 (No.22 of 1992) and also read with Para 1.3 and Para 2.1 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2004-2009, (as amended from time to time), the Central Government hereby amends Appendix 3 of Schedule 2 of ITC (HS) Classification of Export and Import Items, 2004-2009.
The issue has been examined. It is viewed that there may not be any difficulty in allowing duty free import/domestic procurement of raw materials common for the manufacture/production of finished goods as well as for the manufacture of capital goods for use within the unit. The usage of inputs, imported or procured domestically, for manufacture of finished goods is allowed as per Standard Input Output norms (SION) [condition (d) (I) (ii) of opening paragraph of notification No. 52/2003-Cus dated 31.03.2003].
The results of the Chartered Accountants Professional Education – II and Professional Competence Examinations held in June, 2009 are likely to be declared on Monday, the 31st August, 2009 around 2 P.M. and the same as well as the merit list (candidates securing a minimum of 55% and above marks and upto the maximum of […]
The government will soon come out with rules for winding up of limited liability partnership (LLP) firms which can be either voluntary or under orders of a tribunal. “We have written to Parliament asking if the winding-up rules can now be notified. A response is expected soon,” a Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) official told. The winding-up […]
Factories, Business Processing Units and software development firms inside Special Economic Zones (SEZ) will lose all income tax benefits—the most crucial incentive for the tax free industrial enclaves— if the direct taxes code replaces the Income Tax Act of 1961 without any change. The proposed norms also talk of tightening tax incentives to developers […]
